【推荐1】There is a tendency to think of each of the arts as a separate area of activity. Many artists, ________, would prove that there has always been a warm relationship between the various areas of human activity. ________, in the late nineteenth century the connections between music and painting were particularly________. Artists were invited to design clothes and settings for operas and ballets, but sometimes it was the musicians who were inspired (给……以灵感) by the work of contemporary painters. Of the musical compositions that were considered as ________ to the visual arts, perhaps the most famous is Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Mussorgsky ________ the piece in 1874 after the death, at the age of 39, of the artist Victor Hartmann. Though their friendship had not been a particularly long-lasting one, Mussorgsky was shocked by Hartmann’s ________ death. The following year the critic, Vladimir Stasov, who decided to hold an exhibition of Hartmann’s work, suggested that Mussorgsky try to ________ his grief by writing something in memory of Hartmann.

The exhibition served as Mussorgsky’s inspiration. The ten pieces that make up Pictures at an Exhibition are intended as ________ rather than representations of the paintings in the exhibition. Between each is a promenade (舞曲中的行进), as the composer walks from one painting to another. The music is sometimes witty and playful, sometimes almost ________ and frightening. Through a range of surprising ________, Mussorgsky manages to convey the spirit of the artist and his work.

【推荐3】The famous composer, Albert Roussel didn’t have a good start in this career. However, he achieved a great deal of success as a result of a_________. Roussel’s parents died when he was eight and he went to live with his_________. As a little boy, he fell in love with music and_________ himself about it by reading through the family collection that his mother kept,_________ which there were a lot of related books.

Three years later, Roussel’s grandfather died, and his mother’s sister decided to_________ him. Her husband was a kind man and_________ for young Roussel’s music lessons. One summer vacation at a Belgian seaside added a second_________ to his life-the sea. Then he studied to be a naval cadet(海军学员), but still took time to study_________.

In the French Navy, he and two friends found time to_________ a band, playing the works of Beethoven and other__________. Roussel also began composing. On Christmas Day 1892, he had his first chance to__________ as a composer, which turned out to be a success.

That success__________ Roussel to write a wedding march(婚礼进行曲), and one of his navy friends__________to show it to the famous conductor, Edouard Colonne. When Roussel’s friend__________ with the manuscript(手稿), he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to__________ his naval career and devote his life to music.

Not long__________, at the age of 25, Roussel decided to__________ Edouard Colonnes advice. He gave his heart and soul to his composing and__________ a major force in the twentieth century s French music. Because of Edouard Colonnes inspiring__________, Roussel devoted his life to music, but Roussel’s__________ friend later admitted that he had made it up. He said he had never ever shown Roussel’s manuscript to the famous conductor.

【推荐2】Diebedo Francis Kere is a young architect from Africa. There was no _________ school when Mr. Kere was growing up in Gando, one of the world’s poorest countries. Since childhood he had already had a keen sense of _________. His family sent him away to school when he was seven and he did not _________ them. He won a scholarship from the German government and went to study in Germany.

_________ still studying for his architecture degree in Berlin, Mr. Kere learned that the school building in his hometown was on the point of _________. The school had been built some years previously. _________ to share with his village the advantages that _________ had given him, Mr. Kere launched the School Bricks for Gando project and   _________ raising money needed to build a school.

Opened in 2001, the school now _________ more than 300 pupils. The school not only __________ education for the village children, but is used to pass on new skills and __________ to the entire village.

“Africa is full of very bright and __________ young people. But only through __________ to education will they be able to build themselves a better world. For me, Gando School is a __________ because the villagers no longer see it as a waste of time for their children to be in school instead of working in the __________.” Kere said.

【推荐3】“Don't drive across the Kalahari Desert alone”, my friends said. “You might meet Bushmen who have no _________on travelers. "When a traveler lost his way in the desert, a Bushman often waited for him to die and took away the travelers belongings. However, as across the Kalahari Desert was 1, 000 miles shorter than any other，I decided to_________ it. Everything went well until my car broke down.

The noon sun was terribly hot, and I felt _________ and lonely. Remembering my friends'_________, I was a little afraid, too. Then I saw a Bushman walk toward me and smile. I did not_________back. Later, he began to talk but I still didn't _________ him. However, when evening came, I was_________ that there was another human being with me. As he waved his hand every few minutes, I felt less afraid and at last_______

I woke in the early morning and_________found he had a small leather bag, full of __________. I opened the door of the car and in sign language I__________ him that I needed water for the car. He__________ and gave me the bag. I poured the water into the radiator(水箱) and it was not__________. The Bushman ran to the tall grass ,found a long hollow(空心的)stick and pushed one end of the stick into the sand. Then he put his__________around the other end of the stick, and water came out. The Bushman's mouth worked to__________ my bottle .When it was full, he gave it to me. I took the bottle back to the car, poured the water into the radiator, and then__________to the Bushman. Finally, no water came out and we walked back to the car.

I__________ to give him my watch but he turned it down. I decided to give him back a bottle of water taken from the radiator. At my insistence, he__________. I waved him good-bye and continued my__________. That evening I stopped at a small village. I was taking my bags out of the car when I saw my__________. It was on the floor of the car, where the Bushman had put it .

【推荐2】There is an old suitcase in my house which represents the dreams and hopes of my family.

I’m always taking photos of the little _________ I find in the world around me. A few weeks ago, I visited my parents. My father was an _________ when he was young. I took a photo of something that I would _________ as a pretty big wonder. At first _________ it might not look like much. It was just a _________ brown suitcase with two silver locks up on the top. But to me, it’s _________ what a miracle (不可思议的东西) looks like.

That suitcase is the very one my dad brought with him when he _________ to the U. S. from Turkey in 1965. He was just a 19-year-old boy at the time who didn’t know a _________ of English. He _________ all his fiends and family, __________ that he would become an excellent engineer one day. That suitcase carried my dad’s most valuable __________ — many black-and-white photos from home and his science and math textbooks, etc.

As a kid, I was __________ aware of the suitcase. It lived on the top of my bookcase. I never __________ to it, though. It wasn’t until I got __________ that I actually asked my dad about it. Looking inside, I found tons of photos and the __________ my parents wrote to each other, back and forth between the U. S. and Turkey.

That’s when I __________ how beautiful that dirty old suitcase actually was. It’s a __________ of not only the hardships my parents __________, but also all the wonderful things they __________, how they found love, how their dreams __________ and how they got through them all.

【推荐3】Kyle Cassidy and three other members of the Annenberg Running Group were stretching (伸展) on the grounds of the University of Pennsylvania,________ a few runners who were left behind. The Penn colleagues and other community members meet three days a week for a roughly 30-minute jog and a ________. That’s right — during some runs, one of them delivers a talk∶ topics ________ from the brain to Bitcoin (比特币).

But one day last January, it would not be their ________ run. The first evidence that something was off was the man who ________ them very quickly. Cassidy ________ why the man was so fast when another man ran by, yelling, “Help! He ________ my phone and laptop!”

At that, the group did what running clubs do: They ran, ________ the suspect down the streets of Philadelphia until he ________ into a construction site. The runners ________ . Cassidy ran ________ to the far side of the site to cut the thief off ________ the others wandered the neighborhood ________ he had thrown the phone and laptop in a backyard.

No luck. So they decided to ask people in the ________ whether they’d seen the guy. When they knocked on the door of one row house, they were in for a ________. They didn’t know the suspect was ________ behind a bush by that very house. As the owner opened the door, the ________ rushed out from behind the bush … and right into the ________ of the police, who had joined the run shortly behind the runners.

“Running is typically a________sport where you turn fat cells into heat,”Cassidy told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “But sometimes it can be useful, and here was one of those ________. ”

The members of this running group are not hard-core sportsmen. But they do understand the benefit of a little exercise.